拍品 252
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WEBBER, JOHN. Views in the South Seas, from drawings by the Late James Webber, draftsman on board the Resolution, Captain James Cooke, from the year 1776 to 1780. With letter-press, descriptive of the various scenery, &c. These plates form a New Series, and are of the same size as those engraved for Captain Cooke's last voyage. London: Boydell and Co. 1808 [plates watermarked 1819]. Atlas folio, 540 x 420mm. (21 1/4 X 16 1/2in.), dark blue old straight grained half morocco gilt over original marbled boards, printed paper label on upper cover, cover worn, label defective, plates and text with some slight soiling, mostly marginal, small ink stain to margin of plate 16 and the preceding blank margin of a text leaf. 16 colored aquatint plates, title and 15 leaves letterpress. Abbey Travel 595; BCJC 1872.

细节
WEBBER, JOHN. Views in the South Seas, from drawings by the Late James Webber, draftsman on board the Resolution, Captain James Cooke, from the year 1776 to 1780. With letter-press, descriptive of the various scenery, &c. These plates form a New Series, and are of the same size as those engraved for Captain Cooke's last voyage. London: Boydell and Co. 1808 [plates watermarked 1819]. Atlas folio, 540 x 420mm. (21 1/4 X 16 1/2in.), dark blue old straight grained half morocco gilt over original marbled boards, printed paper label on upper cover, cover worn, label defective, plates and text with some slight soiling, mostly marginal, small ink stain to margin of plate 16 and the preceding blank margin of a text leaf. 16 colored aquatint plates, title and 15 leaves letterpress. Abbey Travel 595; BCJC 1872.

Provenance: John Ledyard Phillips, nineteenth-century bookplate. (2)